Your Most Interesting thing from Work.

[dizzyblonde]

Originally Posted by Messie

I taught Damon Albarn

I know you're old, but you can't be that old??....

[Messie]

Yep, 24 years ago, at Colchester Sixth Form College

[Fallout]

Pah. Work is boring. Hardly any interesting stories to tell.

Only vaguely interesting thing I can think of is when a company brought Segways to demonstrate them at work when I worked for IBM. We got to rag those around a gravel car park, wheel spinning them and stuff. One of my work mates asked if they could be crashed if you turned too tightly. He was told no. I chased him down the road on my segway and he tried to get his knees down and ended up in a bush with the Segway on the floor.

It was funny. I'm not sure if the demo people found it as amusing.

I'm hoping to get to ride in the cab of a Heathrow Express train before I finish my job here.

I fired a machine gun out of a helicopter once

I met Messie in my shop once... and I sat chatting to Stirling Moss, Phil Collins, and a few other celebs inbetween phone calls while their Jaguars were having work done on the interiors. When I had my own car trimming business I installed leather trim into Tamsin Outhwaite's Honda CR-V and got a nice Thank You card from her afterwards.

Highlight has to be going with my old boss to deliver his old C-Type Jaguar to Nick Cage's house in LA when he sold it to him. I had to drive the hire car to collect the boss and take him to the airport before flying back to Indiana with him.

I used to love working in the classic Jaguar business, but the stress was incredible at times.

Originally Posted by Lozzo

I met Messie in my shop once... and I sat chatting to Stirling Moss, Phil Collins, and a few other celebs inbetween phone calls while their Jaguars were having work done on the interiors. When I had my own car trimming business I installed leather trim into Tamsin Outhwaite's Honda CR-V and got a nice Thank You card from her afterwards.

Highlight has to be going with my old boss to deliver his old C-Type Jaguar to Nick Cage's house in LA when he sold it to him. I had to drive the hire car to collect the boss and take him to the airport before flying back to Indiana with him.

I used to love working in the classic Jaguar business, but the stress was incredible at times.

do you still do trimming?

Nope, packed it all in over ten years ago and went back to the bike trade. I've sold most of the kit I accumulated while I was doing it and only have a few useful handtools left

ah that kinda sucks, I was after somebody to retrim my bike seats for me

[dirtydog]

Nothing particularly exciting happened when I ran a chip shop, had a well known MP and her husband stagger through the door one night a bit worse for wear. Damon Hill was also a customer.
Job after that was working for a large cash courier company and going into places like LloydsTSB cash centres was quite interesting seeing millions, possibly even billions of pounds stacked floor to ceiling.
Current job is plumbing so nothing particularly exciting ever happens, funniest was I was a a womans flat to fix a leaking radiator which was in the bedroom. She showed me to the room/radiator and when I turned around I noticed her battery powered boyfriend on the bed (if you see what I mean ) at this point the woman has realised she's left it out and dived across the room throwing her duvet over the bed